At what point does national gerrymandering violate the principle of equal protection? It should not be possible for a party to gain fewer votes in congressional elections yet have an absolute majority in the House. In North Carolina, they got under half of the votes for congressmen, but got 70% of the congressional delegation. That’s got to be near the theoretical maximum one can obtain by cramming half the Democrats into Democrats-only districts and putting the rest in majority-Republican districts.